Preface

This project has the support of the National Museum of Denmark (Nationalmuseet), UNESCO and is also based on an agreement of cooperation between the Department of History at the University of Copenhagen and The Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) at the University of Hull (please see www.hull.ac.uk/05/media/research/Wilberforce Leaflet.pdf).

The project wishes to disseminate its findings to the public, first of all, through the unit of the "Modern History of Denmark" at Nationalmuseet and with a number of significant research questions to contribute significantly to the Danish understanding of its Caribbean past and its West Indian colonial history. Moreover, and with the backing of The Danish Institute for Human Rights, the intention is also to contribute to the development of an appropriate understanding in the Danish population of its past as traffickers and owners of slaves as well as messages that may be incorporated in the curricula, text books and in the teaching of the relationship between the Danes and slaves in Danish high schools (cf. Larsen et al., 2003).

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